TELEDISK Problem

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat May 12 15:15:32 2001

On Fri, 11 May 2001 healyzh_at_aracnet.com wrote:

> > I'm trying to write some RX50 disk images
> > using Teledisk. I can use 22DISK and PUTR
> > to format the floppies, but Teledisk will
> > not write to them. I get an error that
> > the drive or controller is returning an
> > unsupported status.
>
> What happens if you format them as MS-DOS floppies, and then try to get
> Teledisk to write to them? I believe that is the way Teledisk expects them
> to be.
>
> Zane

Not so, in writing to a floppy, TeleDisk looks at it as a blank disk.
In attempts to read it later, however, residual 48tpi tracks might
confuse a 96tpi reading on another drive.

                                                 - don
Received on Sat May 12 2001 - 15:15:32 BST